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Jan van der Heyden
Jan van der Heyden was a Dutch Baroque era painter, draughtsman, printmaker and inventor who significantly contributed to contemporary firefighting. He improved the firehose (1672, with his brother Nicolaes, who was a hydraulic engineer), invented by Johann Hautsch, modified the manual fire engines, organised the first European volunteer fire brigade (1685) and wrote and illustrated the first firefighting manual (Brandspuiten-boek).
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